The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-09
The Dependent soIdlers law.

Tie Dependent soldiers Law.
An ACT.
For the relief of dependent par
ents and honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors who are now
Disabled and dependent Upon
their own labor for support.
Be 1t enacted 6y the Senate and
House of Representatives Of The Uni
tel States of Anaericd IN Congress Dis
sen,bieo, That in considering the
pension claims of dependent PAT
ents, the fact and cause of death.
and the fact that the soldier left no
widow or minor children, having
been shown as required by law, it
shall be necessary only to show by
competent and sufficient evidence
that such parent or parents are
without other present means of
Esnpport than their own manual la
Dor or the contributions of others
not legally bound for their support:
Provided, That no pension allowed
under this act shall commences
prior to its passage, and in case of
applications hereafter made under
this act the pension shall COM
mence from the date of the fling
of the application in the Pension
Office.
SEC. 2. That all persons who
served three months or more in the
military or naval service of the
United States in any war in which
the United States has been engag
ed, and who have been honorably
discharged therefrom, and VINO are
now or who may hereafter be suf-
fering from mental or physical dis
ability, not the result of their own
vicious habits or gross carelessness,
which incapacitates them for the
performance of labor in such a de-
gree as to render them unable to
earn support, and who are Deepen.
dent upon their daily labor for sup
port, shall, upon making due proof
of the fact according to such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of
the Interior may provide in pur-
suance of this act, he placed on the
list of invalid pensioners of the
United States, and be entitled TO
receive, for such total inability to
procure their subsistence by daily
labor, twelve dollars per month;
and such pension shall commence
from the date of the fling of the
application in the Pension Office,
npun proof that the disability then
existed, and continued during the
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herein provided: Provided, That
persons who are now receiving pen
sions under existing laws, or whose
claims are pending in the Pension
Office, may, by application TO the
Commissioner of Pensions, in such
forms as he may prescribe, receive
the benefits of this act; but moth
ing herein contained shall be con-
strued as to allow more than one
pension at the same time TO the
same person, or pension to com
mence prior to the passage of this
act: Ind provided, further, That
rank in the service shall not be
considered in applications filed
hereunder.
SEC. B. That no agent, attorney,
or other person instrumental in the
presentation and prosecution of u
claim under this act shall demand
or receive for his services or instru-
mentality in presenting and prose
cutting such claim a sum greater
than i've dollars, payable only up
on the order of the Commissioners
of Pensions, by the pension agent
making payment of the pension al
lowed, except in cases heretofore
prosecuted before the Pension Of
fee, when, in the discretion of the
Commissioners of Pensions, fee
of ten dollars may he allowed in
like manner-to the agent or attor-
ney of record in the case at the
date of the passage of this act; and
any agent, attorney, or other per
son instrumental in the prosecu
tion of claim under this act who
shall demand or receive sum
greater than that herein provided
for, for his service in the prosecu-
tion of the claim, shall be subject
TO the same penalties as prescribed
in section four of the act of July
fourth, eighteen hundred and eigh
ty-fonr, entitled San act making
appropriation for the payment of
invalid and other pensions of the
United States for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-five, and for
other purposes"
SEC. 4. That section forty-seven
hundred and sixteen of the Revised
Statutes is hereby modified SO that
the same shall not apply to this
act: Provided, That this act shall
not apply TO those persons under
political disabilities. And no per
son shall be pensioned under this
act for any disability incurred
while. engaged in the military SER
vice against the United States.
Passed the House of Representa-
tives January IL, 1877.
Attest:
JNo. B. CLARK, JR., Clerk.
The Committee apnointed to in